spongebob voice: Ten Years Later

[0dense]

ya boy is DONE WITH HIS FINALS!!!

This latest one was on epistemic injustice, and how resistance to counter-evidence is a consistent factor but not a sufficient motivation to the whole issue, clocking in at 1730 words

• Fricker, Miranda. “Epistemic Justice as a Condition of Political Freedom?” Synthese, vol. 190, no. 7, 2013, pp. 1317–1332.
• Lenzer, Jeanne. "FDA Bars Own Expert from Evaluating Risks of Painkillers." British Medical Journal 329.7476 (2004): 1203
• Maitra, Ishani. “The Nature of Epistemic Injustice” Philosophical Books Vol. 51 No. 4 October 2010 pp. 195–211
• Nabel, Elizabeth G. “Coronary Heart Disease in Women — An Ounce of Prevention.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 343, no. 8, Massachusetts Medical Society, Aug. 2000, pp. 572–574.
• Perry, Stephen. “Risk, Harm, Interests, and Rights” Risk: Philosophical Perspectives. Ed. Tim Lewens. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp 190-209

I put out 9952 words, including a few short answer sections to the finals. I can't believe that's nearly 40 pages! Looking at it in those figures, I'm quite proud of myself, but the real takeaway is that I can't do this again. This was my first semester in the master's program, as well as working in a legal clinic. Along with commuting and my own baseline, that's too much to have taken on all at once, and now I know why the department was making those faces at my schedule. 
I'm still working on the application, but if I get the Directorship at the office, tptb have the funding to keep us working over the summer, and I've got already got Law And Society on the calendar. It's a 300-level, and knocking one out early will let me do just 3 undergrads and 1 grad course in the fall. With working and commuting, that should be more humane. I'm glad I'm done with this semester, let's not do it again.
On the upside, I've also done something I hadn't managed to do since back on the east coast - I've made a friend! Phil's a rad guy and I'm so glad my mental health is in the place where I can keep up with interpersonal things, it's def a change for the better. Breaking news, folks: things are better when you've got friends to do them with. 

Congrats on the semester, everyone! Here's to summer! :DDD

Comments

[casualbird]

great job!!!!! i finished up today too, though my final word count was a lot less dramatic. i only wrote like... 6000 words?

[0dense]

ayyy congrats!! we made it to summer :D
but oh man yeah this is way more than I've written for a finals push before - but I'm dual enrolled for my MA at the same time as finishing up the undergrad, so that seminar did have the right to ask for it I suppose :_D over 3k of it was all for one paper!